Take a step back in time when you would put on a record and grab a book to read along with some of your Disney favorites before having an Ecto Cooler and a nap. This installment... Treasure Island.

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Blog Update!

 So I have been gone for a while. With everything going on in the world this past year I had taken up a job at my wife's school helping with Covid related precautions. This took up a lot of my time, however now that the students are back in class I've been taking a look at my blog and Youtube page. It seems people really like the Video content so I have decided to focus on that for a bit. I hope to keep videos coming out regularly and may even add a few surprises along the way. The blog for the most part will now supplement the Videos where before it was the other way around. I hope everyone still enjoys both sites going forward and I'll try my best to keep them updated.

Family Vault: Butter on a Boat

Before the Disney Cruise Line, there was the Big Red Boat. They had Disney characters but not Disney level butter sculptures.

Disney Dining at Home: Canton Beef from China

Canton Beef

From Nine Dragons at the China Pavillion in Epcot

Ingredients:

8 ounces beef flank steak

1 green pepper

1 red pepper

1 small onion

1 cup cooking oil

Marinade:

4 tablespoons water

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon chicken base

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1 egg white

1 teaspoon cornstarch

Sauce:

1 tablespoon soy sauce

1 teaspoon oyster sauce

1 teaspoon wine

1 teaspoon chicken stock

1/2 teaspoon chicken base

1/2 teaspoon sugar

Pinch of white pepper

1 teaspoon cornstarch

1/4 teaspoon sesame oil

Method:

1. Slice beef flank steak. Combine marinade ingredients. Marinate beef in a bowl for at least 30 minutes. Cut peppers and onion into bite-size pieces. Set aside.

2. Mix the sauce ingredients in a bowl and set aside.

3. Place approximately 1 cup of cooking oil in a heated wok or fry pan and heat oil to medium heat. Place marinated beef in heated oil and cook until almost done. Drain beef into a strainer. Set aside.

4. Leave about a teaspoon of oil in the wok. Place it back on the stove. Stir-fry onion and peppers for 30 seconds. Pour sauce mixture over onions and green peppers. Stir occasionally with a spatula.

5. When sauce mixture begins to darken in color, place beef back into the wok and stir-fry swiftly. The dish is done when the peppers have softened. Serve hot with steamed white rice.

Flashback Fridays: Sunset at the Shopping Village

Sunset, statues, and no crowds. The Village in the '70s is a place I would time travel to if I could.

Disney After Dark: Adventures in the Dark

Photoshop Fun: Light on the Water

Walt Disney on Dreams

Electricians Closet: The Boardwalk Lobby

The Boardwalk has the feel and charm of the American Boardwalks of the early 1900s. And with that comes some beautiful Lighting. In the Lobby of the resort are several amazing chandeliers and accent lights. One thing to notice is the amount of natural light that illuminates the lobby. This is a nice touch as it's a tribute to those early days. Although the electric light was common at the time the bulbs were not as bright as today's are. In fact, they would not light a room much more than a lantern. So to compensate you need many lights and ways to reflect the light. Hence the chandeliers with many bulbs and also the use of mirrors and crystals in the room.

 

The next to photos show some of the accent lightings found around the lobby fireplace. These lights are more for accenting and reading as opposed to the large chandeliers used for lighting the whole room.

 

Dundy's Sundries has a beautiful stain-glass sign illuminated from behind.

The fun model of a roller coaster has very tiny pin lights on the loop.

Two built-in bookcases in the lounge use photo frame lights to illuminate vintage board game boards. Also, we see some vintage radios that are used to pipe in background music. In the good old days, they would glow from the tubes inside. The model of the Singer sewing machine in the upper right would not be electric but it would have an electric light attached to it to see the needle better.

One more Chandler, this one located in the lobby of the conference center.

Family Vault: 1st Birthday

My first birthday cake. My family started me early.